Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices

The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.

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Results : 207 elements corresponding to 89 countries

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2018
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Lkhon Khol Wat Svay Andet	Cambodia
Shadow play	Syrian Arab Republic
Traditional hand puppetry	Egypt
Yalli (Kochari, Tenzere), traditional group dances of Nakhchivan	Azerbaijan
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Chidaoba, wrestling in Georgia	Georgia
Dondang Sayang	Malaysia
Festivity of Las Parrandas in the centre of Cuba	Cuba
Heritage of Dede Qorqud/Korkyt Ata/Dede Korkut, epic culture, folk tales and music	Azerbaijan – Kazakhstan – Turkey
Horse and camel Ardhah	Oman
Khon, masked dance drama in Thailand	Thailand
La Romería (the pilgrimage): ritual cycle of 'La llevada' (the carrying) of the Virgin of Zapopan	Mexico
Međimurska popevka, a folksong from Međimurje	Croatia
Mooba dance of the Lenje ethnic group of Central Province of Zambia	Zambia
Mwinoghe, joyous dance	Malawi
Picking of iva grass on Ozren mountain	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Reggae music of Jamaica	Jamaica
Rūkada Nātya, traditional string puppet drama in Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka
Singing to the accompaniment of the Gusle	Serbia
Traditional spring festive rites of the Kazakh horse breeders	Kazakhstan
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Land-of-Legends programme, for promoting and revitalizing the art of storytelling in Kronoberg Region (South-Sweden)	Sweden
2017
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Mongolian traditional practices of worshipping the sacred sites	Mongolia
Taskiwin, martial dance of the western High Atlas	Morocco
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of crafting and playing with Kamantcheh/Kamancha, a bowed string musical instrument	Azerbaijan – Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Chogān, a horse-riding game accompanied by music and storytelling	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Khaen music of the Lao people	Lao People's Democratic Republic
Kochari, traditional group dance	Armenia
Kolo, traditional folk dance	Serbia
Kumbh Mela	India
Multipart singing of Horehronie	Slovakia
Organ craftsmanship and music	Germany
Sega tambour of Rodrigues Island	Mauritius
Spring celebration, Hıdrellez	North Macedonia – Turkey
Uilleann piping	Ireland
Xoan singing of Phú Thọ province, Viet Nam	Viet Nam
Zaouli, popular music and dance of the Guro communities in Côte d’Ivoire	Côte d'Ivoire
2016
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Chapei Dang Veng	Cambodia
Ma'di bowl lyre music and dance	Uganda
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Bhojpuri folk songs in Mauritius, Geet-Gawai	Mauritius
Carnival of El Callao, a festive representation of a memory and cultural identity	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Charrería, equestrian tradition in Mexico	Mexico
Khidr Elias feast and its vows	Iraq
Momoeria, New Year's celebration in eight villages of Kozani area, West Macedonia, Greece	Greece
Music and dance of the merengue in the Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic
Nawrouz, Novruz, Nowrouz, Nowrouz, Nawrouz, Nauryz, Nooruz, Nowruz, Navruz, Nevruz, Nowruz, Navruz	Afghanistan – Azerbaijan – India – Iran (Islamic Republic of) – Iraq – Kazakhstan – Kyrgyzstan – Uzbekistan – Pakistan – Tajikistan – Turkmenistan – Turkey
Oshi Palav, a traditional meal and its social and cultural contexts in Tajikistan	Tajikistan
Palov culture and tradition	Uzbekistan
Practices related to the Viet beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms	Viet Nam
Rumba in Cuba, a festive combination of music and dances and all the practices associated	Cuba
Tahteeb, stick game	Egypt
Valencia Fallas festivity	Spain
Winegrowers’ Festival in Vevey	Switzerland
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Festival of folklore in Koprivshtitsa: a system of practices for heritage presentation and transmission	Bulgaria
2015
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Coaxing ritual for camels	Mongolia
Koogere oral tradition of the Basongora, Banyabindi and Batooro peoples	Uganda
Traditional Vallenato music of the Greater Magdalena region	Colombia
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Alardah Alnajdiyah, dance, drumming and poetry in Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia
Bagpipe culture	Slovakia
Lad’s dances in Romania	Romania
Marimba music, traditional chants and dances from the Colombia South Pacific region and Esmeraldas Province of Ecuador	Colombia – Ecuador
Three genres of traditional dance in Bali	Indonesia
2014
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Isukuti dance of Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya	Kenya
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Baile Chino	Chile
Capoeira circle	Brazil
Festivity of Virgen de la Candelaria of Puno	Peru
Gwoka: music, song, dance and cultural practice representative of Guadeloupean identity	France
Kazakh traditional art of Dombra Kuy	Kazakhstan
Nongak, community band music, dance and rituals in the Republic of Korea	Republic of Korea
Pujllay and Ayarichi, music and dances of the Yampara culture	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Ritual dance of the royal drum	Burundi
Traditional Mauritian Sega	Mauritius
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Safeguarding the carillon culture: preservation, transmission, exchange and awareness-raising	Belgium
2013
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Chovqan, a traditional Karabakh horse-riding game in the Republic of Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Art of Đờn ca tài tử music and song in southern Viet Nam	Viet Nam
Celebrations of big shoulder-borne processional structures	Italy
Feast of the Holy Forty Martyrs in Štip	North Macedonia
Knowledge, skills and rituals related to the annual renewal of the Q’eswachaka bridge	Peru
Music of Terchová	Slovakia
Practices and knowledge linked to the Imzad of the Tuareg communities of Algeria, Mali and Niger	Algeria – Mali – Niger
2012
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Bigwala, gourd trumpet music and dance of the Busoga Kingdom in Uganda	Uganda
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Craftsmanship and performance art of the Tar, a long-necked string musical instrument	Azerbaijan
Cultural practices and expressions linked to the balafon of the Senufo communities of Mali, Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire	Mali – Burkina Faso – Côte d'Ivoire
Fest-Noz, festive gathering based on the collective practice of traditional dances of Brittany	France
Fiesta of the patios in Cordova	Spain
Folk art of the Matyó, embroidery of a traditional community	Hungary
Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife	Brazil
Ichapekene Piesta, the biggest festival of San Ignacio de Moxos	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Rites and craftsmanship associated with the wedding costume tradition of Tlemcen	Algeria
Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona	Italy
Worship of Hùng kings in Phú Thọ	Viet Nam
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Strategy for training coming generations of Fujian puppetry practitioners	China
Xtaxkgakget Makgkaxtlawana: the Centre for Indigenous Arts and its contribution to safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage of the Totonac people of Veracruz, Mexico	Mexico
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Folk long song performance technique of Limbe performances - circular breathing	Mongolia
Naqqāli, Iranian dramatic story-telling	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Traditional skills of building and sailing Iranian Lenj boats in the Persian Gulf	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Yaokwa, the Enawene Nawe people's ritual for the maintenance of social and cosmic order	Brazil
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Bećarac singing and playing from Eastern Croatia	Croatia
Ceremonial Keşkek tradition	Turkey
Chinese shadow puppetry	China
Festivity of ‘la Mare de Déu de la Salut’ of Algemesí	Spain
Jultagi, tightrope walking	Republic of Korea
Mariachi, string music, song and trumpet	Mexico
Tsiattista poetic duelling	Cyprus
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Fandango's Living Museum	Brazil
Táncház method: a Hungarian model for the transmission of intangible cultural heritage	Hungary
2010
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Meshrep	China
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Al-Bar’ah, music and dance of Oman Dhofari valleys	Oman
Flamenco	Spain
Gagok, lyric song cycles accompanied by an orchestra	Republic of Korea
Human towers	Spain
Indonesian Angklung	Indonesia
Kalbelia folk songs and dances of Rajasthan	India
Kırkpınar oil wrestling festival	Turkey
Kumiodori, traditional Okinawan musical theatre	Japan
Mongolian traditional art of Khöömei	Mongolia
Mudiyettu, ritual theatre and dance drama of Kerala	India
Music of the Bakhshis of Khorasan	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Parachicos in the traditional January feast of Chiapa de Corzo	Mexico
Peking opera	China
Pirekua, traditional song of the P’urhépecha	Mexico
Ritual dramatic art of Ta‘zīye	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Semah, Alevi-Bektaşi ritual	Turkey
Sutartinės, Lithuanian multipart songs	Lithuania
Traditional Sohbet meetings	Turkey
2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ca trù singing	Viet Nam
Mongol Biyelgee, Mongolian traditional folk dance	Mongolia
Suiti cultural space	Latvia
Traditional music of the Tsuur	Mongolia
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Akiu no Taue Odori	Japan
Art of Azerbaijani Ashiq	Azerbaijan
Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition	Turkey
Busó festivities at Mohács: masked end-of-winter carnival custom	Hungary
Candombe and its socio-cultural space: a community practice	Uruguay
Dainichido Bugaku	Japan
Doina	Romania
Dragon Boat festival	China
Farmers’ dance of China’s Korean ethnic group	China
Gagaku	Japan
Grand song of the Dong ethnic group	China
Ijele masquerade	Nigeria
Katta Ashula	Uzbekistan
Maloya	France
Mazu belief and customs	China
Namsadang Nori	Republic of Korea
Nanyin	China
Nestinarstvo, messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and Helena in the village of Bulgari	Bulgaria
Quan Họ Bắc Ninh folk songs	Viet Nam
Radif of Iranian music	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Seto Leelo, Seto polyphonic singing tradition	Estonia
Spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice (queens) from Gorjani	Croatia
Tango	Argentina – Uruguay
Two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale	Croatia
Xi’an wind and percussion ensemble	China
Yueju opera	China
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of Aymara communities in Bolivia, Chile and Peru	Bolivia (Plurinational State of) – Chile – Peru
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Ahellil of Gourara	Algeria
Al-Sirah Al-Hilaliyyah epic	Egypt
Andean cosmovision of the Kallawaya	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Azerbaijani Mugham	Azerbaijan
Baltic song and dance celebrations	Estonia – Latvia – Lithuania
Baul songs	Bangladesh
Căluş ritual	Romania
Carnival of Barranquilla	Colombia
Carnival of Oruro	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
Chopi Timbila	Mozambique
Cocolo dance drama tradition	Dominican Republic
Cultural space and oral culture of the Semeiskie	Russian Federation
Cultural space of Boysun District	Uzbekistan
Cultural space of Jemaa el-Fna Square	Morocco
Cultural space of Palenque de San Basilio	Colombia
Cultural space of Sosso-Bala	Guinea
Cultural space of the Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit of the Congos of Villa Mella	Dominican Republic
Cultural space of the Yaaral and Degal	Mali
Duduk and its music	Armenia
El Güegüense	Nicaragua
Fujara and its music	Slovakia
Gangneung Danoje festival	Republic of Korea
Gbofe of Afounkaha, the music of the transverse trumps of the Tagbana community	Côte d'Ivoire
Gule Wamkulu	Malawi – Mozambique – Zambia
Guqin and its music	China
Hudhud chants of the Ifugao	Philippines
Iraqi Maqam	Iraq
Kabuki theatre	Japan
Kihnu cultural space	Estonia
La Tumba Francesa	Cuba
Lakalaka, dances and sung speeches of Tonga	Tonga
Language, dance and music of the Garifuna	Belize – Guatemala – Honduras – Nicaragua
Mak Yong theatre	Malaysia
Makishi masquerade	Zambia
Maroon heritage of Moore Town	Jamaica
Moussem of Tan-Tan	Morocco
Nha Nhac, Vietnamese court music	Viet Nam
Ningyo Johruri Bunraku puppet theatre	Japan
Nôgaku theatre	Japan
Polyphonic singing of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa	Central African Republic
Processional giants and dragons in Belgium and France	Belgium – France
Royal ancestral ritual in the Jongmyo shrine and its music	Republic of Korea
Samba de Roda of the Recôncavo of Bahia	Brazil
Sbek Thom, Khmer shadow theatre	Cambodia
Shashmaqom music	Uzbekistan – Tajikistan
Slovácko Verbuňk, recruit dances	Czechia
Song of Sana’a	Yemen
Traditional music of the Morin Khuur	Mongolia
Urtiin Duu, traditional folk long song	China – Mongolia
Uyghur Muqam of Xinjiang	China
Vimbuza healing dance	Malawi
Wayang puppet theatre	Indonesia